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  • Joseon Dynasty, Japanese colonial era, and the most recent Republic of ... into three branches: executive, judicial, and legislative. The executive ...
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  • statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, and jurist, best known as the ... Jay served in the Continental Congress and was elected president of that ...
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  • a long-time professor at Harvard University, and the author of several books ... ==Life and work== John Bordley Rawls was born in Baltimore, Maryland ...
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  • 1972) was a Canadian statesman, diplomat, and politician, who, in 1957, ... care, student loans, the Canada Pension Plan and Canada's flag. He improved ...
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  • 30, 1930) was a prominent American labor and community organizer. Mother ... ==Early Life and Family== Mary was born on the north side of Cork City ...
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  • , was an American botanist, paleontologist, and sociologist, and first president ... Illinois, into the family of Justus Ward and Silence Rolph. His family ...
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  • happiness was the ultimate goal of life, and that it could be achieved ... émigré family; his parents, Neocles and Chaerestrate, both Athenian ...
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  • July 23, 1793) was an early American lawyer and politician and a founding ... Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. ...
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  • field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army and the third and ninth Prime ... was strongly influenced by Prussian military and political ideas, which favored ...
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  • 1501-1570). The two lived in the same period and they met in 1558 when T'oegye ... developed Zhu Xi's Thought in Korea and set the path of Korean Neo ...
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  • Many witnesses, including bystanders and journalists, testify that ... of the day largely cleared the soldiers and British authorities of blame ...
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  • against Iran's Mohammed Mosaddeq and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ... However, the Shah's regime was oppressive and rode roughshod ...
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  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island nation in the Windward ... its native peoples, East Indians, Africans, and the British who settled the ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:TVP.JPG ... or agencies are those empowered to use force and other forms of coercion and ...
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  • New Zealand serving three terms between 1999 and 2008. She was New Zealand ... Loosing the 2008 election, she was appointed foreign affairs spokeswoman. ...
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  • born at Monmouth, Wales, September 16, 1387, and he reigned as King of England ... Henry was son of Henry of Bolingbroke, later Henry IV, and Mary de ...
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  • female Prime Minister, from 1993 to 1995, and the third woman leader of ... she was a professor at Bosphorus University and a partner in business with ...
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  • 6, 1964) was a Filipino general, politician, and independence leader. He played ... is considered to be the country's first and the youngest Philippine President ...
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  • against the corruption of Tammany Hall, and fought to keep taxes low. ... == Early life and career == Tilden was born in New Lebanon in New York ...
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  • S. Continental Congress, minister to France and Great Britain, governor of ... first five U.S. presidents, four were born and lived in Virginia. ...
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  • founder of the present form of the agency, and remained director for 48 years ... World War II, the Korean War, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. During this ...
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  • branch of the Union's institutions and has been described as one ... procedure (equal rights of amendment and rejection) does not apply ...
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  • minister in the United Methodist Church and leader in the civil rights ... Joseph Echols Lowery was born to Leroy and Dora Lowery on October ...
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  • brothers in the continued violence. Corrigan and Williams believe that women ... gained recognition as a promoter of peace and justice that has inspired ...
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  • is an Iranian lawyer, human rights activist and founder of Children's ... for appearing in public without a headscarf and for allegedly shaking the ...
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  • of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs. There are more than 300 ... rendered much of reservation land unusable and had a catastrophic effect ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox University-Jen ...
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  • Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen ... is one of the eight Ivy League universities and among the most prestigious ...
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  • 19, 1917 – July 1, 1999) was the leader and founder of the Zimbabwe African ... In 1980, both Nkomo and Mugabe took part in the Lancaster House talks ...
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  • 12, 1945 - ) is a Jamaican politician and was the country's Prime ... has had a reputation as a voice for the poor and unemployed, as an advocate ...
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  • 1443 – April 6, 1490) was king of Hungary and Croatia, ruling between 1458 ... -a successful military leader of Kuman and Hungarian descent, who had ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law An authorized official can pardon, or forgive, a crime and its penalty; ...
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  • The Belfast Agreement, alternatively and widely known as the Good ... with the Irish Taoiseach, Albert Reynolds and by helping to bring about ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... Category:Marriage and family [[Image:François Boucher 019.jpg|thumb ...
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  • of the United States, the 10th Chief Justice of the United States, a ... judge, Governor-General of the Philippines and Secretary of War before being ...
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  • authority was. He succeeded a pious and good man, Pope Celestine but ... Benedict had served as a cardinal priest and papal legate to Sicily, France ...
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  • June 24, 1908) was the 22nd (1885–1889) and 24th (1893–1897) president ... taxes, corruption, patronage, subsidies and inflationary policies. His ...
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  • regardless of sex or gender, in public and private life. Islamic feminists ... Zia who held the post from 1991 to 1996, and was elected again in 2001 ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Social work ameliorating social problems such as poverty and homelessness.]] ...
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  • be tasked with writing a new constitution and deciding a new form of government ... signed by Kerensky as Minister-President and Zarudny as Minister of Justice ...
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  • 24, 1929) was a French statesman, physician and journalist. He led France ... Clemenceau, however, secured France's trusteeship of Syria and ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology ... Category:Marriage and family [[Image:Douglass Helen Eva Frederick.jpg ...
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  • comedian, writer, media personality, and television host. ... Frost Over the World on Al Jazeera English and from 2012, the weekly program ...
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  • two separate countries: The Czech Republic and Slovakia. It is sometimes ... Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. The Slovak government ...
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  • in continental Africa, though Seychelles and São Tomé and Príncipe are ... democracy since 1991, the 1996 and 2002 presidential elections—as ...
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  • in consultation with the Cook Islands and at its request. The Cook Islands ... Pacific Ocean, about half-way between Hawaii and New Zealand, spread out over ...
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  • - May 9, 1987) was a Nigerian politician and leader, a Yoruba Chief, and ... of holding Nigeria's competing regions and tribes together within a federal ...
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  • (November 17, 1558 – March 24, 1603), and Lord High Treasurer from 1572 ... original thinker; but he was a cautious man and a wise counselor, with a rare ...
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  • in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the United Nations ... On January 1, 2007, he succeeded Kofi Annan, and passed several major reforms ...
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  • December 6, 1889) was an American statesman and advocate for slavery, most ... the U.S. House of Representatives, and the U.S. Senate. He fought ...
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  • 22, 1995) married into the Kennedy family and together with her husband ... greater purpose: President John F. Kennedy and Senator and Presidential candidate ...
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  • New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States in 1947 ... The unresolved issues of independence from France and resurgent Kanak ...
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  • – July 14, 1965) was an American statesman and politician. He was known for ... by people of all persuasions for his vision and thoughtful eloquence that ...
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  • politician, lawyer, military leader, and the 19th President of the ... 4, 1822. His parents were Rutherford Hayes and Sophia Birchard. Hayes was ...
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  • not select or dismiss heads of governments, and governments cannot request ... with few exceptions, most were autocratic and limited the representation ...
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  • November 25, 1997) was the leader of Malawi and its predecessor state, Nyasaland ... By 1993, facing international pressure and widespread protest, a referendum ...
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  • a Chinese statesman, historian, essayist, and poet of the Song Dynasty. ... lifestyle among the mountains, rivers and people of Chuzhou, is acclaimed ...
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  • beginning his parliamentary career as a Tory and concluding it as a Liberal ... were greatly controversial at the time, and remain so today. On the other ...
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  • , was an African-American philanthropist and tycoon. Born Sarah Breedlove ... Despite such odds, Sarah Breedlove, with vision and determination ...
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  • the terms of the Twenty Fifth Amendment, and upon succession to the presidency ... inflation, reviving a depressed economy and solving chronic energy shortages; ...
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  • , British secretary of state for foreign affairs, formerly prime minister ... enabling the return of the Jews to Israel and eventually the unfolding of ...
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  • of Independence from South Carolina and, at the age of 26, the youngest ... A delegate at both the First Continental Congress and the Second Continental ...
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  • 1898) was a British Liberal Party statesman and prime minister of the United ... prime ministers, with Winston Churchill and others citing Gladstone as ...
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  • an Italian medieval philosopher, theologian, and church official who held the ... He also attempted to resolve contradictions and paradoxes through making subtle ...
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  • servant, administrator, businessman, author, and lecturer. In 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a government informant and former Communist ...
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  • of princely states, colonial provinces and possessions. Despite partition ... fragmented between medieval-era kingdoms and provinces organized by colonial ...
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  • The islands are best known for being the home of the descendants of ... of the Tuamotus of French Polynesia, and consist of four islands: Pitcairn ...
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  • was President of France from 1981 to 1995, and was best known for leading ... a strong supporter of European integration and did not want Germany to dominate ...
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  • of a European state, the Netherlands, and two Caribbean states, Aruba ... The original native people of Aruba and surrounding islands were the ...
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  • a leader of the Indian independence movement and first Prime Minister of the ... As the son of the wealthy Indian barrister and politician Motilal ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology NAACP representatives E. Franklin Jackson and Stephen Gill Spottswood meeting ...
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  • along the state line with Nebraska and flows northwest, past the ... historical conflict between Native Americans and white Americans. The first ...
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  • Dominion of India between August 15, 1947 and January 26, 1950 and that ... quot; at the top, white in the middle, and green at the bottom. In the ...
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  • (most of which are volcanically active) and 36 smaller islets with a total ... The islands were explored by Russians in the seventeenth and eighteenth ...
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  • reign saw vital developments in legislature and government—in particular ... a coup against his regent, Roger Mortimer, and began his personal reign. ...
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  • a successful mining engineer, humanitarian, and administrator. He exemplified ... Hoover took office in 1929, amid high hopes for the country and his ...
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  • of Madagascar. Largely populated by Indian and Creole descendants of those ... upscale tourists. Though it was once the home of the extinct dodo bird, ...
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  • India as it acquired auxiliary governmental and military functions, until ... initiatives, such as education provision and measures aimed at creating ...
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  • Bible. It is part of Judaism's Torah and Christianity's Old Testament ... The language of Deuteronomy is often inspiring and poetic, portrayed ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication ... between two or more people (the interviewer and the interviewee) where questions ...
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  • is officially conducted by the President and the Secretary of State. Less ... of the United States repeatedly mentioned and emphasized by government officials ...
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  • The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental ... a fundamental change in the way people think and act, so that global solidarity ...
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  • #039;u'lláh is seen as the most recent and pivotal, but not final of ... is unity: the unity of God, of religion, and of humankind. These principles ...
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  • bordering Guangdong province in the north and facing the South China Sea ... serve as an entrepôt of the British Empire, and grew rapidly into a center ...
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  • the twenty-third Prime Minister of Australia and longest serving Australian ... state-owned Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and stabilized the economy. Aboriginal ...
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  • chancellor of West Germany (1969–1974) and leader of the Social Democratic ... North-South divide, conserve the environment and build a world "in which ...
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  • ) spans nearly a century of political tensions and open hostilities ... Despite involving a relatively small land area and number of casualties ...
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  • world, is located between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, ... It is a self-governing Danish province. Though physiographically and ...
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  • the Gdańsk Shipyards, where Lech Wałęsa and others formed Solidarity ( ... Nonviolence: The Dispute Between Realists and Idealists (Routledge, 2004 ...
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  • Kyiv, pronounced [ˈkɪjiu̯], the capital and the largest city of Ukraine ... Kiev is an important industrial, scientific, educational and cultural ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication ... the father of the field of public relations, and was named as one of the one ...
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  • She is the eldest daughter of Queen Juliana and her husband, Prince Bernhard ... of the twenty-first, beginning with Emma and ending with Beatrix. Beatrix ...
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  • Union armies during the American Civil War and the eighteenth President of ... Grant's tenacity in war was matched by his discretion and magnanimity ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Social work ... providing humanitarian aid to persons and communities who have suffered ...
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  • , but communities exist across the country and significant numbers also live ... Han Chinese except that they practice Islam, and have some distinctive cultural ...
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  • rest in Judaism, some forms of Christianity, and other religious traditions ... with Sunday as a day of special worship and evolved a less strict attitude ...
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